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Who is Sonny van Bergen?
Sonny van Bergen is a data consultant and the founder of Power BiSon. Eight years in data and analytics, from Power BI dashboards and the data layer underneath to data governance and data quality. Currently working at a pension fund on the adoption of its data governance framework, and hosts the Databewuster podcast.
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What I am working on now
- PGGM Data Management Consultant, Data Governance Enablement (DMO Investment Management) Jun 2026 – present
Adoption of the data governance framework at Investment Management: enablement on Collibra for seven data roles, a running data community and the Power BI certification dashboard.
- DAMA Netherlands Foundation (volunteer) Data Management - Data Quality Sep 2024 – present
Contributing to the development and free distribution of knowledge around data quality management.
- Power BiSon Consultancy B.V. Data Management Lead (entrepreneur) Dec 2020 – present
25+ SME clients via Power BiSon Consultancy B.V. Varied data and lead combination roles in different sectors.
Earlier engagements
| Period | Client | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 – May 2026 | Landal | Senior BI Consultant Finance Analytics & Power BI |
| Sep 2025 – Feb 2026 | Dycotrade | Senior BI Consultant Microsoft Fabric & D365 |
| Apr 2025 – Sep 2025 | Waternet | Data Management Specialist - Data Governance |
| Jan 2025 – Mar 2025 | Enza Zaden | Data Analyst & BI Reporting Specialist |
| Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 | Van Oord - Dredging and Marine Contractors | Technical BI Specialist - Founding the Future, Project Controls |
| 2024 – 2025 | Iberico | Technical Data Analyst |
| Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 | Scania Benelux | BI Analyst & Data Management Lead |
| Apr 2022 – Jun 2023 | Rabobank - Global KYC | Data & Power Platform Analyst |
| Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 | Mercy Ships Holland Foundation | Power BI Dashboarding Analyst |
| Sep 2021 – Apr 2022 | Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland & SNK | Power BI Analyst Azure Data Platform |
| Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 | T-Mobile Netherlands | Data Reporting Analyst |
| Apr 2021 – Apr 2024 | KVL - Bring analytics to the people | Business Lead, Data Analyst & PO |
| Feb 2019 – Mar 2021 | Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden | Functional Administrator Power BI / QBIX |
| Dec 2018 – Mar 2021 | Qcompany | Data / Business Analyst |
Certifications
- Chief Data Officer Certification Programme · Chief Data Officer Education Inc. · 2025
- Tabular Editor Certified · Tabular Editor · 2024
- CDMP Certificate Data Management Professional · DAMA, International · 2024
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) · Scrum.org · 2024 (in progress)
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner · UNLP · 2022
- Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate DP-203 · Microsoft · 2021
- Certified Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 · Microsoft · 2021
- Certified Solutions Expert - Data Management & Analytics · Microsoft · 2020
- Traineeship Master Class Professional · Calco · 2019
- Analyzing & Visualization Data with Microsoft Power BI (PL-300) · Microsoft · 2019
- Cloud Computing Foundation Certificate · EXIN ICT competence partner · 2019
- Certified Solutions Associate - BI Reporting · Microsoft · 2019
- Lean Six Sigma - Yellow Belt · RA'Quel Financial Solutions · 2017
Education
- Bachelor in Management, Economics and Law · Hogeschool Inholland, Haarlem · 2014 - 2018
What I work with
| Frameworks & Methodologies | DAMA-DMBoK, TOGAF, Lean Six Sigma, GIT |
| Database Management System | SQL Developer, Google Cloud & APIs, Microsoft Azure |
| Automation Tools BI Analytics & Frontend Tools | Python, R Studio, VBA, Power Platform, Power BI / Fabric, DAX, QlikView, ThoughtSpot, Oracle Analytics Cloud, SSAS, SSRS & SSIS, D365 |
| BI ETL / Backend / Data Warehousing Tools | Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, DBT, IBM DataStage, Azure Data Factory, GitHub |
| Development Methodology / Tooling | Agile/Scrum, DevOps, Jira |
| Data Modelling | Kimball, Data Vault, Star Modelling, Power Query, Tabular Editor 3 |
Half an hour is enough to know whether we fit
No slide deck and no quote at the end. We walk through your sources, your definitions and your biggest frustration.
Book half an hourFrequently asked questions
Which roles do you take on?
Data or business analyst, data manager, data steward, product owner, team lead, and interim head of data. Which of those fits depends on where things are stuck: a report nobody trusts calls for something different than a governance framework that exists on paper but lands nowhere.
What does eight years of experience mean here?
17 engagements since 2018, across water authorities, insurance, pensions, seed breeding and marine contracting. Always on the same seam: the technology under a number, and the agreements around it that make the number mean the same thing everywhere.
Why a podcast alongside the work?
Because data management rarely fails on the technology. In Databewuster, data managers and Chief Data Officers describe how they handle it in their own organisation. That yields more usable patterns than any framework does. The conversations are in Dutch.
Do you work alone or with a team?
Both. On an engagement I am at the controls myself; where more is needed, Power BiSon works with a fixed group of specialists. What I will not do is place a team that comes with six months of learning on your budget.